This was originally published on July 8, 1995.

It's always great to look at older articles, and this one is pretty cool. This is a list of shareware award winners 12 years ago. I've gone ahead and checked to see if the companies are still selling software. I appended it to the list.

The following programs were the winners of the 1995 Shareware Industry Awards.  The awards were presented on June 24, 1995 in a gala event during the 1995 Shareware Industry Conference, in Scottsdale, AZ. Congratulations to ALL the winning programs!!

BEST UTILITY - Integrity Master by Stiller Research

• Status: Not updated anymore. The home page of http://www.stiller.com is now owned by a squatter.

BEST MAJOR APPLICATION - Telix for Windows by deltaComm

• Status: Final update notices in 2001. The home page hasn't been updated since 2001 .

BEST WORD PROCESSING APPLICATION - WordExpress for Windows by MicroVision

• Status: They are still in business and selling the same product. Of course, they could probably sell their domain name and make a ton of money.

BEST GRAPHICS/MULTIMEDIA UTILITY - SmartDraw by Smartdraw Software

• Status: They are still in business , and have expanded into many different SmartDraw products.

BEST PAINTING OR DRAWING SOFTWARE - Tek Illustator by TommySoftware

• Status: While there is a tommysoftware.com domain, there is nothing there. It appears they stopped updating the product in 1996 .

BEST BUSINESS AND FINANCE SOFTWARE - Money Smith by Brad Smith

• Status: They are still in business and selling the same product.

BEST TECHNICAL SOFTWARE - Fastgraph/Light by Ted Gruber Software

• Status: They are still in business and have updated their program to work with Windows CE.

BEST EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE - Billy Bear Series by Loraine Wauer

• Status: Still in business and have expanded.

BEST ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Soleau Games Collection by William Soleau

• Status: Still in business and updating their programs.

BEST ACTION/ARCADE GAME - Rise of the Triad by Apogee Software Ltd.

• Status: Still in business and still waiting for the next version of Duke Nukem.

BEST HOME/HOBBY SOFTWARE - SoundZ by Unicorn Software

• Status: It appears they are still in business , but haven't updated the software or the site since 2004.

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